“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”

The concept is to weave in some emotion.

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.

If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down’

Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can’t have it both ways.

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.

Your mind is a magnet. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

I was left with a fragile heart yet, I learned to embrace all my broken pieces.

Sometimes I feel like I’m only a drop in your ocean and the waves will soon carry me away.

And in return for all the love i gave you, all you ever gave me was pain and heartbreak.

Don’t let strangers break your heart.

You feed me poison in a spoon of gold and I always ask for more.

I couldn’t sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

I only act from my heart.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.